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Identification

Reference as: MPL00634
Title Funerary inscription for a child
Trismegistos-No. 591607

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, outside Porta Flaminia, near the vineyard of Giovanni Battista Prosperi
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details unknown/lost
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
  • Elegiac couplet
  • Other
  • iambo-trochaic rhythm
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

DM

TVQVIPRAETERIESSPECTAS
MORTISMONVMENTVMMEVMASPICEQVAMMISERESIT
DATAVITAMIHI
ANNORVMVIIIIVIXIDVLCISSIMAPAREN
5TIBVSMEIS
INXASCENDENSANIMADEPOSVIMEAM

HOCTANTVMTESTORTELAPISOSSAREQVIE
SCAS
NETEVELISESSEGRAVES
D(is) M(anibus).

Tu qui praeterie(n)s spectas
mortis monumentum meum, aspice quam misere sit
data vita mihi.
annorum VIIII vixi dulcissima paren-
5tibus meis,
in X ascendens anima(m) deposui meam.

Hoc tantum testor te, lapis, ossa requie-
scas,
ne te velis esse graves.
D(is) M(anibus).

Tu qui praeterie(n)s spectas mortis monumentum meum,
aspice quam misere sit data vita mihi.

annorum VIIII vixi dulcissima paren|(5)tibus meis,

in X ascendens anima(m) deposui meam.

Hoc tantum testor te, lapis, ossa requie|scas,

ne te velis esse graves.
Apparatus

l.7 reg., orig. graves

Text follows CIL, drawing checked by V. González in 2023.
ll.3, 6: commatica (Cholodniak)
Cf. CIL 10, 04428 = EDR006820 and CIL 10, 05020 = EDR122481.

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Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 51 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • formulae

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-23, by Victoria González Berdús
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:05:21, ID there: EDR184175
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 10:05
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-08-09 11:02
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 09:44
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 10:04
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 10:05
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 11:05
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-23 17:25
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